PhD. in Zoology

Emílio Goeldi Museum

PA, Brazil

2017 - 2013

• DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: Phylogeographic of disjunct bird between Amazon and Atlantic Forest

MSc. in Environmental biology

Federal University of Pará

PA, Brazil

2012 - 2010

• MASTER THESIS: Phylogeographic analysis of Xiphorhynchus guttatus from Amazon and Atlantic Forest

Degree in biological science

Federal University of Pará

PA, Brazil

2010 - 2006

Postdoctoral Researcher

Botanical Garden Research Institute
Supervisor: Marinez F Siqueira

RJ, Brazil

2021 - 2019

• Beta diversity in Caatinga dry tropical forest
  https://github.com/Tai-Rocha/Caatinga_Dry_Forest.github.io
• Beta diversity in Caatinga dry tropical forest
  https://github.com/Tai-Rocha/Caatinga_Dry_Forest.github.io
• Climatic niche analysis forSyzygiella rubricaulis(Bryophytes)
  https://github.com/Tai-Rocha/S_rubricaulis_bryophytes
• The first botanical explorations of bryophyte diversity in the Brazilian Amazon mountains: high species diversity, low endemism, and low similarity
  https://github.com/Tai-Rocha/Bryophyte-Amazon-mountains
• Ecological niche models with future projections for Dimorphandra wilsonii Rizzini (Fabaceae) presented to Green List in the three-year activity plan of the Brazilian Plant Red List Authority member of the Plant Conservation Commitee between 2017-2020 and the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
  https://github.com/Tai-Rocha/faveiro
• Ferns and lycophytes diversity of Tijuca forest.
  https://github.com/Tai-Rocha/Ferns-and-lycophytes

Researcher of Technological Development and Innovation

Ecoly departament
Supervisor: Mariana M Vale

UFRJ, Brazil

2019 - 2017

• Analyzed and visualized data for CATOS fish tracking project.
• Head of data mining project to establish temporal trends in population densities of Mysis diluviana (Mysis).
• Ran project to mathematically model the migration patterns of Mysis (honors thesis project.)

Instructor

Biology department

PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020 - 2020

• Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
• Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.¹

Instructor

Biology department

PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
• Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.²

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

Veiga de Almeida University

RJ, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
• Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.³

Data Visualization Best Practices

DataCamp

RJ, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• Designed from bottom up course to teach best practices for scientific visualizations.
• Uses R and ggplot2.
• In top 10% on platform by popularity.

Improving your visualization in Python

DataCamp

RJ, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• Designed from bottom up course to teach advanced methods for enhancing visualization.
• Uses python, matplotlib, and seaborn.

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

Veiga de Almeida University

RJ, Brazil

2018 - 2018

• Served as TA for two day workshop on how to leverage Javascript in Shiny applications
• Lectured on using R2D3 package to build interactive visualizations.⁴

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

UFRA

PA, Brazil

2018 - 2018

• TA and lectured
• Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
• Highest level course offered in department

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Estácio de Sá University

RJ, Brazil

2017 - 2017

• TA and lectured
• Covered introduction to R language for statistics applications
• Graduate level class

Guest lecture. Biological Sciences- Bachelor’s Degree

UFRA

PA, Brazil

2017 - 2017

• TA and lectured
• Topics covered from penalized regression to boosted trees and neural networks
• Highest level course offered in department

High school teacher

Dinâmica Natural

RJ, Brazil

2017 - 2015

• TA and lectured
• Covered modern statistical computing algorithms
• 4th year PhD level class

Building a software package in tandem with machine learning methods research can result in both more rigorous code and more rigorous research

ENAR 2020

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020

• Invited talk in Human Data Interaction section.
• How and why building an R package can benefit methodological research

Stochastic Block Modeling in R, Statistically rigorous clustering with rigorous code⁵

RStudio::conf 2020

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020

• Invited talk about new sbmR package⁶.
• Focus on how software development and methodological research can improve both benefit when done in tandem.

PheWAS-ME: A web-app for interactive exploration of multimorbidity patterns in PheWAS⁷

Bioinformatics

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020

• Manuscript detailing application for the exploration of multimorbidity patterns in PheWAS analyses
• See landing page⁸ for more information.

Charge Reductions Associated with Shortening Time to Recovery in Septic Shock⁹

Chest

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• Authored with Wesley H. Self, MD MPH; Dandan Liu, PhD; Stephan Russ, MD, MPH; Michael J. Ward, MD, PhD, MBA; Nathan I. Shapiro, MD, MPH; Todd W. Rice, MD, MSc; Matthew W. Semler, MD, MSc.

Multimorbidity Explorer | A shiny app for exploring EHR and biobank data¹⁰

RStudio::conf 2019

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• Contributed Poster. Authored with Yaomin Xu.

Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns¹¹

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019 - 2019

• University wide seminar series.

Patient-specific risk factors independently influence survival in Myelodysplastic Syndromes in an unbiased review of EHR records

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019

• Bayesian network analysis used to find novel subgroups of patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS).
• Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

Patient specific comorbidities impact overall survival in myelofibrosis

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2019

• Bayesian network analysis used to find robust novel subgroups of patients with given genetic mutations.
• Analysis done using method built for my dissertation.

R timelineViz: Visualizing the distribution of study events in longitudinal studies

Under-Review (copy available upon request.)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2018 - 2018

• Authored with Alex Sunderman of the Vanderbilt Department of Epidemiology.

Continuous Classification using Deep Neural Networks¹²

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2017 - 2017

• Review of methods for classifying continuous data streams using neural networks
• Successfully met qualifying examination standards

Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD

Journal of Human Immunology

RJ, Brazil

2015 - 2015

• Authored with Richard Single, Vanja Paunic, Mark Albrecht, and Martin Maiers.

An Agent Based Model of Mysis Migration¹³

International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference

RJ, Brazil

2015 - 2015

• Authored with Brian O’Malley, Sture Hansson, and Jason Stockwell.

Declines of Mysis diluviana in the Great Lakes

Journal of Great Lakes Research

RJ, Brazil

2015 - 2015

• Authored with Peter Euclide and Jason Stockwell.